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World Health Organization`s Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality

Access to safe drinking water is essential as a health and development issue at national, regional and local levels. The World Health Organization (WHO) developed WHO drinking water guidelines to formulate national standards and regulations to enforce water safety and support public health. The WHO conducts revisions on the guidelines and publishes them to incorporate new evidence obtained ...

Pathogen Removal and High Log Reduction Value Crediting for Reverse Osmosis Systems Using Continuous Strontium Monitoring

Public potable water supplies are being stressed by growing population, cyclical droughts, and climate change. One way to sustainably augment the potable water supply is to recycle (reuse) ...

BioLargo Signs Memorandum of Understanding with BKT and City of Daegu

BioLargo, Inc. (OTCQB:BLGO), developer of sustainable technologies and a full-service environmental engineering company, today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with BKT Co. Ltd (and its US subsidiary Tomorrow Water), ...

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Secondary & Tertiary Effluent UV Disinfection System

Municipal wastewater generally requires bacteria treatment to meet discharge limits before discharge to surface waters. The main objective is to reduce the number of waterborne pathogens to safe levels, and thereby lowering the risk of exposing the public to infectious diseases. UV is an ideal treatment option for wastewater since it does not alter the water quality – except for treating ...